By Clay Adams - Posted on 30. June 2012 10:04
In addition to being pummelled by torrential rains, Amazon - along with its popular Netflix service - is likely also taking a beating in the customer service email box as well.
Late Friday night, Amazon's EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud endured an outage due to power loss during severe thunderstorms in the vicinity. Netflix posted a tweet acknowledging the issue and ensuring the service would be restored soon.
Amazon.com and its other services including Pinterest and Instagram were all knocked offline as well.
At the time of this writing, the issues appear to have been abated and services are coming back online. Fortunately, while the outage happened during peak periods, it lasted less than two hours. Still, the issue is troubling, as the incident tonight comes on the coattails of another recent hiccup. Just two weeks ago, the EC2 was down for nearly 7 hours.
Amazon has grabbed headlines in recent weeks for its Compute Cloud platform, with many proponents citing the redundancy benefits. That stance could become harder to defend for Amazon if the downtimes recur.
Clay is a staff writer and digital publicist for bWERX Inc. Contributing 7+ years of web-based business experience, he constantly works to improve our online presence and visitor experience. His writing topics include technology news, business software news and tech help guides.
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